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[Paula]

I thought "Under the Banner of Heaven" was a bit frightening. That one could keep you up nights!

[FromAna]

Susanna wrote: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo starts slowly but gets really good, I think."

I had the same thought. about 50 pages in I was hooked and LOVED it!

[FromAna]

A thousand splendid suns

[Lisa]

Reading 'The Rubber Band' by Rex Stout - working my way thru the whole series.

[El]

Still reading Shakespeare and H.P.Lovecraft. There's a lot to go through! :)

[Jeane]

Alex wrote: "Jeane, sometimes I think my wife puts too much thought into whether books are chick books or boy books. She also refuses to like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay because she s..."

:-))
I find it a pity that people who didn't read the story will play the game and have a wrong idea about dante and the story.

[Jeane]

Jayme wrote: "Finished Picture of Dorian Gray today. It was pretty rockin'. Tomorrow I'll start The Darien Gap: Travels in the Rainforest of Panama."

I saw dorian gray yesterday, while i read the book at school and they made the movie pretty disturbing.

[Jayme]

Annabeth wrote: "Still reading Shakespeare and H.P.Lovecraft. There's a lot to go through! :)"

How are you liking Lovecraft? I'm trying an audiobook of his "best". I finished The Dunwich Horror and it just couldn't hold my attention. Is it better reading it? I thought maybe because he uses so much description, audio might not have been the way to go.

[Jeane]

Finished People of the Book and really enjoyed it. I am almost finishing The Book Thief which is also really good and started The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches.

[Lianne]

I've started reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel and it's pretty interesting so far =)

[Catamorandi]

I am now reading Death at Devil's Bridge by Robin Paige.

[Jayme]

Li wrote: "I've started reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel and it's pretty interesting so far =)"

That wasn't my favourite Kay book, but still good. If you like that you should read The Fionavar Tapestry, they're semi-related.

[Alisha Marie]

Paula wrote: "I thought "Under the Banner of Heaven" was a bit frightening. That one could keep you up nights!"

I wasn't really that frightened by it. One non-fiction book that scared the hell out of me was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I read half of that book at night and then stopped because I was too scared. I have yet to pick it up again.

[Paula]

That one was quite scary! I did finish it and have never forgotten it. Another one was "Hot Zone" by Preston. We are one plane trip away.

I think what was frightening about "Under the Banner of Heaven" is the way these fundamentalists think. That is very scary to me.

[Alisha Marie]

The way the fundamentalists think really just upset me. The whole book was upsetting or rather the topic was. It was still a great book though. I definitely have the check out Hot Zone.

[Rene]

I read Hot Zone several years ago and it still haunts my memory. It was very scary and a hint away from being true.

[Marti]

I just finished The Postmistressby Sarah Blake. I found it mesmerizing and wondered how all the story lines were going to fall together. I am sure it is a book that many people here on TNBBC are going to enjoy...

I do think next I might read either Jonathan Kellerman's new book called Evidence or An Impossible Attraction by Brenda Joyce. My book club is reading Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. I have finished it already.

[Rene]

Marti: The Postmistress is patiently awaiting me in my Kindle! I will get to it in a week or so. I have just started The Same Sweet Girls and I cannot put it down.

[Jason]

I am reading Con Air a climate change book. Its very interesting and totally blows Al Gores movie out of the water. It had me convinced that anthropogenic global warming doesn't factor into the equations way back in chapter one !!!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while.

[Jayme]

Oh my lord, Jason, I should probably keep my mouth shut and not go there, but that kind of "science" makes me puke! The only thing about that book that makes me happy is how few shelves it's on. And it's Air Con, not Con Air.

[Michelle]

Just finished The Shipping News and Shutter Island. Just started The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

LOL, Con Air is an action-adventure movie with Nicolas Cage.

[Jason]

In My Defence I wrote that in the middle of the night
and I am sorry you hate it so much Jayme, I wouldn't have mentiooned it if I knew how you felt about it.

[Becky]

Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri

[El]

Still plugging away at The Voyage Out and The Historian (someone please tell me this book does eventually end...). Started Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself last night. It occurred to me that while I had read excerpts of his narrative for school, I'd never been required to read the whole thing. So I'm finally getting around to that.

[Lori Ann]

Finished A Great and Terrible Beautyand am now starting The Secret Life of Bees

[Chrystal]

I just finished Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood) by JR Ward and started Calling Home by Janna McMahan.

[Efe]

I just finished Twilight, and I thought it was soooo boring. I am now reading New Moon which I am hoping will be better than Twilight, and The Picture of Dorian Gray so that my brain doesn't atrophy.

[Rachel]

I'm about halfway through The Invisible Man and not really that far into Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace Behind the Magick, finding both books a little slow and not really holding my concentration. I picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning and realized that my lack of attention really was about the material and not me, because this book sucked me right in.

[Sasha]

Wow, that Harry Potter and the Bible book sounds like total crazytime.

[Rachel]

Alex wrote: "Wow, that Harry Potter and the Bible book sounds like total crazytime."

It sorta is, depending on your view of Harry Potter and religion. I think i'm having trouble getting past the fact that the author wrote the book after only the 4th Potter book had come out, so he's judging an incomplete story.

[Sasha]

I'm an atheist so I'm a little outside of that debate, but Harry Potter's not exactly the first series of books to deal with magic, right? My guess would be that the Harry Potter generation will be no more likely than anyone else to turn into crazy occultists.

If there's a huge surge in virgin-sacrificing in 2030, though, I will gladly admit I was wrong.

Good point on the incomplete story.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I am just starting In the Woods by Tana French.

[Catamorandi]

I am getting ready to listen to Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. I listen better than I read. I comprehend more.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Wow, Catamorandi, it's exactly the opposite for me. If I just listen, I fall asleep. It's really depressing. I hope you like Firefly Lane!

[Kiyo]

Iam currently reading CUTS by richard laymon. It is richard laymon. it mystery and suspense........the guy albert is crazy!

my website is wwww.Itskiyosworld.synthasite.com/

[Kiyo]

Mandy wrote: "I'm reading Double Cross by James Patterson - so far so good.

Sherrie: I got Angels & Demons for Christmas, did you like it? Also in my mountain of books to read sitting on my cupboard is The ..."

doube cross is verry good.....it has a surprising end

[Susanna]

Oops. It seems I've taken a full month's break from Atlas Shrugged . I have a third left of the book so I hope to sweep through it by the end of the week.

[Rachel]

At any given time, I am reading three books: 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction, and a re-read. Right now, I am into the second book of Pamela Aidan's Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, which retells Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's POV. It's called Duty and Desire and I enjoyed the first one, so I am looking forward to the rest. I am also reading The Essence of Style. It's all about how the culture of France in Louis XIV's reign was the precursor to modern luxury living. Very interesting. I am also re-reading The Historian.

[El]

Re-reading The Historian, Rachel? Kudos to you! I'm having trouble getting through it the first time. :)

[Carol]

El wrote: "Re-reading The Historian, Rachel? Kudos to you! I'm having trouble getting through it the first time. :)"

It was not one of my favorites, I gave it away pronto.

[Cait]

Last night I finished reading (and crying over) A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway. While I admit that the characters occasionally came across as socially retarded with their clunky dialogue, the story as a whole was subtle and heartbreaking.

Now I'm starting The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie for a more amusing, light read. I'm also going to start taking In Cold Blood with me to the gym to read during my workouts, as I don't think it will make for very good night time reading for me. :o)

[Cait]

Jamie wrote: "Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while."

Weren't some of the scenes just absolutely horrifying?
I was very taken with that book as well. What an intense reading experience.

[Sasha]

Yeah, Blindness had some rooooough scenes. I dug it, but I know one person who thought it was too much.

Has anyone read the followup, Seeing? My wife liked it at least as much; it totally didn't work for me and I quit. (My wife is more likely to be right than I am; I didn't give it a fair shot.)

[Carol]

Blindness was terrific, In Cold Blood was haunting and The Sweetness At the bottom of the Pie, just that. A sweet book for everyone.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Jamie wrote: "Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while."

Oooohhhh.... That made me oh so happy. I love when people love Saramago. I wish I could rewind time and read this book for the first time again....

[Lori, Super Mod]

Alex wrote: "Yeah, Blindness had some rooooough scenes. I dug it, but I know one person who thought it was too much.

Has anyone read the followup, Seeing? My wife liked it at least as much; it..."

If you are expecting it to be like Blindness, you will be disappointed. Its not quite a sequel, more political, but it takes place in the same town, with some of the same characters. I rather enjoyed it.

[Carol]

Wait 20 years Lori then you will have forgotten. hahahahaha

[FromAna]

Catch 22